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עַי

ʻAy · H5857 · Hebrew · proper noun · 41 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 places

Meanings

  1. Ai

    Town, probably to be identified with Aiah; near Bethel, territory of Ephraim

    Examples

    Genesis 12:8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

    Genesis 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

    Joshua 7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.

  2. Ai

    Town; territory of Ammon

    Examples

    Jeremiah 49:3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah, Put on sackcloth and mourn, And move about inside the walls; For Malcam will go into exile Together with his priests and his leaders.

  3. town

    See עִיר

    Examples

    Joshua 8:16 And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

16 occurrences in 7 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

14 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of Locations003001010
עַי (Ai) is the name of a Canaanite city destroyed by Israel in Joshua 7-8.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5857. Ay or Ayya or Ayyath עַיָּה עַיָּ֑ת, עַי,40 proper name, of a location Αγγαι…
H5857. Ay
or Ayya or Ayyath עַיָּה עַיָּ֑ת, עַי,40
proper name, of a location Αγγαι (Genesis), Γαι:
1 old Canaanite city, עַי always with article הָעַי (הָעָ֑י Gen 13:3 +), near Bethel to the southeast (exact site unknown, compare DiJos 7:2 BuhlGeogr. 177), Gen 12:8 (J), Gen 13:3 (J), Jos 7:2 (twice in verse); Jos 7:3-4, Jos 7:5; Jos 8:1 (twice in verse); Jos 8:2, 318t. Joshua 8 (+ Qr Jos 8:12; Jos 8:16, but improbable, Kt עיר, compare Di), Jos 9:3; Jos 10:1 (twice in verse); Jos 10:2 (all J E), Jos 12:9 (D), Ezr 2:28 = Neh 7:32; = עַיָּת Isa 10:28; עַיָּה (so Baer Ginsb, > עַיָּא van d. H.) Neh 11:31, so read also (for עַזָּה q. v. near the end) 1Ch 7:28.
2 east Jordan city Jer 49:3 (+ חֶשְׁבוֺן), but read עָר city (?) Gf RothstKau Co (הָעִיר ?).
עִי see I. עוה. עַיָּא see עַי. עיב see עוב.
עֵיבָל see עוֺבָל below עבל. עַיָּה see עַי. p. 716, above

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of Locations41 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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